Today's Sports

With Kentucky’s general wild turkey season opening April 16, here’s what you need to know before going afield:

Q: What are the season dates and bag limits?
A: Kentucky’s spring youth-only turkey season is April 2-3. The 23-day general spring turkey season opens Saturday, April 16 and continues through Sunday, May 8. The spring bag limit for all hunters is two turkeys with visible beards (male or female), but hunters may take no more than one bird a day.

The Spencer County Youth Football Association is hosting a spring football and cheer camp on Sundays, April 3, 10 and 17.
The camp is free to Spencer County youth ages 5 to 7 for football and ages 5 to 14 for cheerleading.
Each day the camp will run from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Stallions Football Field located at 100 Water St. behind the fire department.
Anyone interested in coaching in the fall season should attend the camp and sign up, organizers said.

The Lady Bears are off to a good start on the softball diamond and have posted a 5-1 record early in the season. Following a 1-0 loss to CAL last Tuesday, the girls have strung together four straight victories, which included a 9-1 win over Nelson County, a 7-1 win over Henry County and 8-1 over Southern and a 20-0 romp over Fairdale. They are scheduled to meet Fairdale again at home today and will be at Bullitt Central on Thursday. They’ll participate in an Oldham County tournament over spring break.

No one could have predicted the Final Four that begins play this weekend with 11 seed Virginia Commonwealth matched up with 8th seed Butler. Well, that’s not exactly true. Of the 5.9 million bracket entries collected by ESPN, two people did actually pick these four teams. Odds are, those brackets were filled out after tossing some darts or by an old lady in North Dakota who was bored with her daily crossword puzzle.

The commonwealth’s big triple?
The only way last weekend could have been My-Old-Kentucky-Home-better would be if Happy Chandler were here to sing our song, and my Corbin friend Malcolm Pace had a microphone to say, “Boys, it don’t get no better than this.”
Pikeville College is king of NAIA. Bears are national champions.
Bellarmine is king of NCAA Division II. Knights are national champions.
And, East Region champion Kentucky is headed to the Final Four.

Junior Michael Vuick pitched Monday as the Spencer County Bears opened their season with a 3-0 loss to Bethlehem at home. The Bears began a seven game road stretch on Tuesday when they traveled to Bardstown and will not have another home game until they host Eminence on April 12.